Representations of Loss in Irish Literature

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
 Introduction: Defining Representations of Loss  (Deirdre Flynn, Eugene O’Brien)....Pages 1-17
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
 In Search of Lost History: Embodied Memory and the Material Past in Post-millennial Irish Fiction  (Maria Beville)....Pages 21-36
 Holding on to ‘Rites, Rhythms and Rituals’: Mike McCormack’s Homage to Small Town Irish Life and Death  (Deirdre Flynn)....Pages 37-52
 Evental Time and the Untime in Finnegans Wake  (Shahriyar Mansouri)....Pages 53-73
 ‘All Over Belfast’: History, Loss, and Potential in Lucy Caldwell’s Where They Were Missed  (Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado)....Pages 75-93
Front Matter ....Pages 95-95
 ‘A Pure Change Happened’: Seamus Heaney and the Poetry of Loss  (Eugene O’Brien)....Pages 97-114
 Lost? Technology and Place in Recent Irish Poetry  (Anne Karhio)....Pages 115-132
 Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish EcoPoetry  (Eóin Flannery)....Pages 133-154
 Grief, Guilt, and Ghosts: Fantastic Strategies of Staging Loss on the Contemporary Irish Stage  (Eva-Maria Kubin)....Pages 155-173
 ‘The Wake? What of It?’: Figures of Loss in the Migrant Plays of Colm Ó Clubhán  (Ed Madden)....Pages 175-195
Back Matter ....Pages 197-205